Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Australian Geology                                                                                                           

Abyssal Water Circulation

Acraman Impact Horizon see Ediacaran Fauna

Accretionary Prism

Adelaide Fold Belt See Neoproterozoic Australia

Adelaide Rift Complex See Neoproterozoic Australia

Adventure Tracks

Amelia Creek Impact Structure

Archaean

Argoland - Argo Abyssal Plain

Aridification of Australia

Arnhem Land - Arnhem Block

A-tents (pop-ups)

Australian Alps

Australian-Antarctic Depression

Australian Continent

Australian Landscapes - Cretaceous to recent

Australian Mesoproterozoic

Australian Neoproterozoic

Australian Soils

Australian Volcanoes

Basins

Baxter Cliffs -

Bedout High

The Blue Mountains

Breakup of Gondwana - Australia from Antarctica

Broken Bay - example of geological history during times of low sea level

Bunda Cliffs - Nullarbor Plain

Bunda Plateau - Nullarbor Plain

Bungle Bungles

Canning Basin

Cape York Peninsula

Capricorn Orogeny

Central Australia

Central Australian Basins

Central Australian Groundwater Discharge Zone

Centralian Superbasin See Neoproterozoic Australia

Chambers Pillar

Chemical Weathering

Collision of East and West Gondwana

Columbia

Cradle Mountain

Deserts

Devil's Marbles

Drifting

Drifting - Changes on the Continent

Drifting - Changes to drainage systems resulting from rifting

Drifting - direction change in the Middle Cretaceous and Middle Eocene

Duricrust

Earthquake Distribution

Earthquakes

Eastern Australia

Effects of water from the Great Artesian Basin on soil

Fluvial Landforms

Gawler Craton

Geological History see more

Gilgais

Glickson Impact Structure

Gosse's bluff

Gondwana

Great Barrier Reef

Great Dividing Range

Hampton Range - Nullarbor Plain

Heavitree Quartzite See Neoproterozoic Australia

Iapetus Ocean

Indo-Australian Plate

Supercontinent Cycle & Icehouse to Greenhouse Cycle

Great Australian Bight

Terranes

The Great Journey North

Stages on the Way

The Great Journey South

Hamersley Range

Ice Ages

Inselbergs

Island Arc Systems - Morphology

Israelite Plains - Nullarbor Plain

Journey Back Through Time

Kalbarri Coast

Kanimblan Orogeny

Katherine Gorge

Kimberley Block

King's Canyon

Lachlan Fold Belt

Lakes

Landforms

MAPCIS - Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure

Mass Movements of Materials

Mawson Continent

Mount Connor

Mount Kinahan Sandstone See Neoproterozoic Australia

Musgrave Block - also

Musgravian Orogeny

Musgrave Province

Neogene

Neoproterozoic Australia

Nullarbor Plain

Ocean Trenches

Oceanic Crust-Origins

Palaeodrainage

Palaeogene

Palaeoproterozoic Australia

Palaeozoic Era

Pangaea

Pediments

Perth Basin

Pidinga Formation - Nullarbor Plain

Physical Weathering

Pinnacle Desert see Nambung National Park see Perth Basin - Cervantes-Jurien Area

Plate Tectonics

Precambrian Heat Flow

Precambrian Ice Age

Precambrian Tectonics

Profiles of the southern continents

Propagating Rifts and Microcoplates

Pyramid Hill

Ranges

Regimes - Innamincka Regime See Australian Palaeogeography

Regimes - Potoroo See Australian Palaeogeography

Rifting

Continental Rifts & Rifted Margins

Narrow Rifts - General Characteristics

Riverine Plains

Rodinia

Roe Plains - Nullarbor Plain

Salt

Separation

Separation-Drainage Changes

Sheet Fractures

Snowball Earth

Southern Ocean

Southwest Tasmania

Stability of Australia

Stirling Range - Koi Kyeunu-ruff

Subduction Zones - Structure

Subduction Zones - Variation of Characteristics

Submarine Canyons

Supercontinent cycle

Supercontinents and Superplume Events

Sydney Basin

Tasman Fold Belt System

Tasman Peninsula

Tectonic Landforms

Terra Australis Orogen

Terranes

Tidal Waterfalls - Horizontal waterfalls

Timeline of Australian Volcanoes

Tookoonooka Crater

Townsend Quartzite See Neoproterozoic Australia

Transform and strike-Slip Faults-Continental

Triple Junction Stability

Tweed Volcano

Uluru  - Ayre's Rock

Vaughn Springs Quartzite See Neoproterozoic Australia

Volcanoes

The Warrumbungles

Weathering

Westward Subduction Beneath the Australian East Coast

Wilson's Bluff Limestone - also

Wolfe Creek Crater

Wylie Scarp - Nullarbor Plain

Yilgarn Craton

The Video Across Australia visits many of the places of geological interest on this site.

Links

1. Australia Through Time
2. Earth Science Australia
3. Shields Up: Magnetized Rocks Push Back Origin of Earth's Magnetic Field
4. Tectonic Evolution of Proterozoic Australia
5. The Building Blocks of a Continent
6. New theory for what drives plate tectonics

Sources & Further reading

1. The Video Across Australia visits many of the places of geological interest on this site.